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...results of the survey will remain a secret until tomorrow when they are displayed as part of the annual Physics Department Puppet Show, in which second-year grad students traditionally skewer the faculty. First-year grad students and undergrads in the department flock to the show to see professors subtly (and not so subtly) mocked for ineptness in the classroom, for overworking their poor second-years in their laboratories and for doing useless research...
...split the nine-pound buffalo hump into two pieces and roast one in a Dutch oven set on the bottom of the fire and skewer the other on a metal pole laid over the fire. Both techniques produce a dry version of buffalo, which tastes a whole lot like beef, if a tiny bit tougher and leaner. It would be much better grilled, but it is still pretty good. It also might be better if Leandra hadn't insisted on putting a pile of dried buffalo dung into the fire right under...
...rallied against Pomey and Gomes; rights are often what we use to justify not caring about other people, be it as businessmen, journalists or private citizens. At times they are the assertion of personal entitlement over humane consideration and in this situation I think that our right to skewer and expose Pomey and Gomes is better left shelved...
...yesterday a group of about 25 students carried cardboard boxes heaped with yellow pieces of paper, stamped "VOID" and each affixed to a satay skewer. They then planted the "ballots," across the southeast end of the common...
...adults create a realistic high school show? Does anyone want them to? High school shows succeed by offering sexy fantasies (Dawson) or outlandish stories that ring psychologically true (Buffy). What may save Popular is not its pandering to hipness but its willingness to skewer social haves and have-nots and its satiric, Heathers-ish flourishes (the popular girls, e.g., hang out in a velvety school powder room called "the Novak," as in Kim). Freaks, a sweet and funny character study, is probably the "realest" of the bunch and the best fall drama aimed at any demographic...